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The choroid is vascular tissue located underneath the retina and supplies oxygen to the outer retina; any damage to this tissue can be a precursor to retinal diseases. This paper presents an automated method of choroidal segmentation from enhanced depth imaging optical coherence tomography (EDI-OCT) images. The Dijkstra shortest path algorithm is used to segment the choroid-sclera interface (CSI), the outermost border of the choroid. A novel intensity-normalisation technique that ...

The present disclosure is directed to systems and methods for normalizing an image of an eye among multiple optical coherence tomography (OCT) devices. The system can receive an OCT image and generate a normalized OCT image. The system is configured to normalize a sample density of the received image, normalize an amount of noise using a suitable noise reduction technique, normalize a distribution of signal amplitudes of the image, and ...

Ocular imaging has been heavily incorporated into glaucoma management and provides important information that aids in the detection of disease progression. Longitudinal studies have shown that the circumpapillary retinal nerve fiber layer is an important parameter for glaucoma progression detection, whereas other studies have demonstrated that macular parameters, such as the ganglion cell inner plexiform layer and optic nerve head parameters, also are useful for progression detection. The introduction of ...

...H Grant for $654,143 for Novel Glaucoma Diagnostics for Structure and Function. The principal investigator is Joel Schuman. The program began in 2016 and ends in 2019. Below is a summary of the proposed work.

... in the ophthalmic and blindness prevention fields. This year, the prestigious award will be presented to Dr. Joel S. Schuman MD, Professor and Chair, Department of Ophthalmology and Professor of Neuroscience and Physiol...

Purpose : To assess the effect of the previously reported optical coherence tomography (OCT) signal normalization method on reducing the discrepancies in image appearance among spectral-domain OCT (SD-OCT) devices. Methods : Healthy eyes and eyes with various retinal pathologies were scanned at the macular region using similar volumetric scan patterns with at least two out of three SD-OCT devices at the same visit (Cirrus HD-OCT, Zeiss, Dublin, CA; RTVue, Optovue, Fremont, CA ...

Although it is well documented that abnormal levels of either intraocular (IOP) or intracranial pressure (ICP) can lead to potentially blinding conditions, such as glaucoma and papilledema, little is known about how the pressures actually affect the eye. Even less is known about potential interplay between their effects, namely how the level of one pressure might alter the effects of the other. Our goal was to measure in-vivo the pressure-induced ...

Since the introduction of commercial optical coherence tomography (OCT) systems, the ophthalmic imaging modality has rapidly expanded and it has since changed the paradigm of visualization of the retina and revolutionized the management and diagnosis of neuro-retinal diseases, including glaucoma. OCT remains a dynamic and evolving imaging modality, growing from time-domain OCT to the improved spectral-domain OCT, adapting novel image analysis and processing methods, and onto the newer swept-source OCT ...

Advances in optical coherence tomography (OCT) have prompted a transition from time domain OCT, providing 2D OCT images, to spectral domain OCT, which has a 3D imaging capability. Yet conventional technology offers little toward the goal of inter-device compatibility between extant 2D OCT images and newer 3D OCT images for the same or comparable subjects, as in the context of ongoing monitoring the quantitative status of a patient's eyes ...

...H Grant for $714,891 for Novel Glaucoma Diagnostics for Structure and Function. The principal investigator is Joel Schuman. The program began in 2016 and ends in 2019. Below is a summary of the proposed work.
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Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is a precise technology that can be used for interrogating tissue structure and function noninvasively, painlessly, and quickly using near-infrared light. At its inception, OCT was typically a tool for assessing tissue thickness. Time-domain OCT is fast enough to scan a circle centered on the optic nerve head (circumpapillary) to assess retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL) thickness. With the development of spectral-domain OCT, volumetric (3-dimensional) scanning ...

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) has established itself as the dominant imaging modality in the management of glaucoma and retinal diseases, providing high-resolution visualization of ocular microstructures and objective quantification of tissue thickness and change. This article reviews the history of OCT imaging with a specific focus on glaucoma. We examine the clinical utility of OCT with respect to diagnosis and progression monitoring, with additional emphasis on advances in OCT technology ...

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is a precise technology that can be used for interrogating tissue structure and function noninvasively, painlessly, and quickly using near-infrared light. At its inception, OCT was typically a tool for assessing tissue thickness. Time-domain OCT is fast enough to scan a circle centered on the optic nerve head (circumpapillary) to assess retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL) thickness. With the development of spectral-domain OCT, volumetric (3-dimensional) scanning ...

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OCT will be able to detect glaucomatous abnormalities prior to our current functional measurement technology being able to detect them, and the earlier in the disease that you can detect damage or progression, the more likely it is you are able to prevent further progression with less intensive intervention.

I’m delighted by the Champalimaud Foundation’s recognition of our efforts...We continue to work on improving OCT and in the next decade, it could be as portable and easy to use as a standard ophthalmoscope.

You can look for characteristic nerve fiber layer abnormalities that are seen in glaucoma and these will show up as arcuate abnormalities — deviations from normal — on the deviation map of the spectral-domain OCT.

With imaging we have much younger technology. The progression assessments with these technologies seem to be more sensitive than functional assessment, but they don't necessarily overlap with functional assessment or even with each other.

I think that in future iterations we will be able to have focal assessment of change, looking at the overall trend as in regression, but also looking at event analysis, analogous to the GPA on visual field.